[Coco] Help retrieving Coco disk images

[John Goerzen]

How do I do that?

Thanks Art,

John

On 11/12/2014 04:19 PM, Arthur Flexser wrote:
> Maybe worth checking the drive speed before buying a new drive?
>
> Art
>
> On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 12:43 PM, John Goerzen <jgoerzen at complete.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi folks,
>>
>> I was a Coco II (Disk Extended BASIC) user way back when.  I am
>> currently trying to preserve what data I had on those disks.
>>
>> To do so, I have assembled a DOS machine out of old parts, including a
>> real 1.2MB FDD that works.  I have the COCO2EMU with its RETRIEVE.EXE.
>> I also have version 1.3 of RETRIEVE.EXE.
>>
>> Both of them have only been able to read a single disk without errors: a
>> factory Tandy disk labeled "One-on-One".  I have no memory of what that is.
>>
>> On all my other disks, it generates a read error for sector 1 of every
>> track.  That is, if I ignore the error, it will read the rest of that
>> track's sectors but generate an error on sector 1 of the next track.
>> (Or perhaps it is ignoring the entire track and doing nothing at all...)
>>
>> Any ideas of what I might try here?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> John
>>
>>
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